Economic History as a Progressive Science

This essay examines the relationship between Austrian economics and economic history. It notes their different origins as scholarly fields, and divergent trajectories over the course of the twentieth century, before discussing recent examples of cross-fertilization and pointing to areas of shared interest and other complementarities. I argue that methodological differences have been one barrier to dialogue between these two fields, but suggest that these methodological differences have diminished in recent years.

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